The Social & Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) would like to bring to your attention its upcoming training workshop?"Introduction to Sampling"?heldApril 29th – May 1st, 2013.?This training opportunity draws upon SESRI's strategic partnership with the University of Michigan and on the depth of experienced resources at the Institute of Social Research.
Course Objectives
This is a foundation course in sample survey methods and principles. The instructors will present, in a non-technical manner, basic sampling techniques such as simple random sampling, systematic sampling, stratification, and cluster sampling. The instructors will provide opportunities to implement sampling techniques in a series of exercises that accompany each topic. Group work is an integral part of the course. Participants will be allocated arbitrarily to four-person groups who will collaborate on the solution of course exercises. All participants will be supplied with a laptop computer in order to complete group exercises in Excel. Participants should not expect to obtain sufficient background in this course to master survey sampling, but they can expect to become familiar with basic techniques well enough to converse with sampling statisticians more easily about sample design.
Target Audience
Individuals in SESRI and Qatar University as well as in government, universities, business, and nonprofit organizations in Qatar interested in understanding survey sampling methods and applying them in practice. Introductory course work in statistical methods is recommended. Participants should be familiar with descriptive statistics, the normal and binomial distributions, chance selection, expected values, standard error, and confidence intervals. If you are uncertain whether you have adequate background, examine methods contained in Statistics, 2nd Edition, by Freedman, Pisani, Purves, and Adhikari (W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1991), Chapters 3-6 and 13-16. Those wishing to have a brief introduction to some of the material in the course will find it useful to read Chapters 1-8 in the monograph Introduction to Survey Sampling, by Graham Kalton (Sage Publications, California, 1987).
Workshop duration
April 29th – May 1st, from 8:30am to 2:00 pm.
Language of training
English with professional simultaneous Arabic interpretation available.
Instructors
Michael Traugott- Professor, Communication Studies, & Research Professor, Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan.
James M. Lepkowski- Professor, University of Michigan, Research Professor, Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of Maryland.
Kien Trung Le- Research Associate, SESRI
Registration
If you feel that this training will be useful for members of your respective college, organization, center or institute please contact SESRI for further information and/or fill the attached registration form. Due to the hands on nature of this workshop please note that there are limited spaces available.?Please register no later than April 18th , 2013.
Contact
Ms. Engi El-Maghraby, Projects Coordinator at SESRI, Send Email
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